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Were they landlines this wouldn't be an issue. Cell phones should only be issued to homeless people. If you have section 8 housing, landline only. It's the advertising of entitlement programs under this president that is just nuts, why drum up business to give away money? I believe we already gave away more than enough as it is.
So why did was it expanded to cell phones during the Bush years, were is your criticism of Bush??????
Criticism over what ? The move to cellphones ?
Why criticize that ?
Wouldn't anyone ASSUME that the government would have planned this out ?
It wasn't until the cost of the program exploded that people both in and out of government started asking questions.
Then it was uncovered that there was no oversight and no accountability.
The FCC had no way to see if a person applying for a lifeline phone at AT&T also had one with Verizon.
There was no database against which the telecom companies could check. It was all being done on individual's word that they had no other lifeline phone.
And previous to that there was no need for a central database to check.
You could only have one physical lifeline phone connection per address.
The fault lies with the FCC for not designing oversight with the move to cellphones.
I'm not going to get into the game of blaming one President or another.
This was the FCC at fault.
Blame for what? I'm not whining about govt phones, you guys are.
I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy.
Government phones during Reagan and Bush are good
Government phones during Obama are bad.
I dont think ANYONE should get free phones, thats not at all hypocritical
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